Animal Abuse

An Arkansas rescue dog who had been “badly abused” in his previous home has found a new one after spending nearly 500 days in a shelter.

Documents obtained by the rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) indicate that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to have advised a decrepit monkey laboratory in Colombia on how to potentially continue to receive U.S. taxpayers’ dollars.

A man in Elkhart, Indiana, stands accused of having sex with his family’s pet dog and threatening his mother over the incident that reportedly occurred in March 2022.

A man in Rowan County, North Carolina, is accused of engaging in sexual activity with a dog belonging to him and his girlfriend.

Colombian authorities shut down a decrepit monkey laboratory on January 30 funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with U.S taxpayers’ dollars following revelations of animal abuse, neglect, and potential fraud.

Charges were dismissed against a Walkertown, North Carolina, man who allegedly performed sex acts with dogs after he was indicted in federal court, the Winston-Salem Journal reported Thursday.

PETA called on the NIH to address 17 new federal animal welfare violations — adding to the 120 violations in the past several years.

A woman in Moberly, Missouri, was charged for allegedly killing a pet dog and burning it as a “sacrifice,” ABC 17 reported June 9.

Two South Carolina men have been arrested and charged with ill-treatment of animals after a video surfaced showing an individual hurling a dog into a lake.

The Hunger Games actress Jena Malone was part of a crowd of onlookers who took matters into their own hands when a man was allegedly seen abusing a dog near Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood on Tuesday.

Two municipal health workers in southeast China’s Shangrao city recently filmed beating a woman’s pet corgi to death with a crowbar while she was away from her home undergoing a mandatory coronavirus quarantine have been “criticized and educated” by local authorities, China’s state-run Global Times reported Sunday.

A municipal health worker in southeastern China’s Shangrao city beat a woman’s pet dog to death with a crowbar on Friday while the woman was undergoing a state-run coronavirus quarantine outside her residence, Taiwan News reported Monday, citing security camera footage from inside the woman’s home that captured the incident.

A Sri Lankan man faces trial in December after allegedly engaging in sexual intercourse with a goat at least three times at an animal park in Tours, France.

Pet abduction will be made a separate criminal offence in the United Kingdom after a rise in thieves targeting dog owners during the lockdown.

Local government officials in Australia had dogs due to be rescued from a council pound shot dead, to stop shelter workers from going to pick them up during Covid. 

TOKYO (AP) – A German coach at the Tokyo Olympics was suspended Saturday after being filmed hitting an uncooperative horse during the women’s modern pentathlon competition.

The U.S. is funding animal experimentation at the Wuhan laboratory, Sen. Joni Ernst and the White Coat Waste Project’s Justin Goodman said.

An anonymous tipster led the police to rescue nearly 80 sick cats from a home in Missouri and arrest two suspects on animal abuse charges.

Venezuela’s socialist regime arrested a man on Monday accused of forcing a monkey to consume a fatal amount of alcohol for the benefit of filming a TikTok video.

A severely abused dog that was left abandoned in a field is now on his way to a forever home in Oklahoma.

A teenage girl installed security cameras to prove her father was abusing her inside their home in Okaloosa County, Florida, in December. 

A sheep was stabbed to death in a village in southern England, following a string of mysterious ‘Satanist’ animal killings in the area.

A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with threatening several farmers who told him he could not have sex with their animals.

Police said the story of a dog who was found with its muzzle duct-taped shut and throat cut was all a hoax, according to reports. 

A California pet sitter was caught on camera throwing a puppy to the ground, as revealed by surveillance footage of the incident.

A Tennessee police department asked residents this weekend not to flush drugs down their toilets to avoid turning alligators into “meth-gators.”

Cops arrested numerous suspected illegal aliens and drug-traffickers at an illegal cockfight in Patrick County, Virginia, according to a report in the Martinsville Bulletin.

Two British women have been jailed in the Gulf state Sultanate of Oman, for “trying to rescue abused animals”. The pair were in the Middle East teaching English for the British Council, but ran afoul of a “cultural misunderstanding” with their

An Oregon man named Fidel Lopez was handed the maximum sentence for raping a dog that later had to be euthanized, a report says.

A woman arrested and accused of robbing an Ohio bank has been found to have a conviction of bestiality for sexually molesting her dog, a report says.

A Missouri man accused of using tape to bind a small dog and throw him into a ditch last week thought the animal was spying on him and giving the information to the police, authorities said.

A Florida man was arrested and charged with sexually abusing his Siberian Husky after police were sent a video showing the alleged abuse.

A Colorado man has been sentenced to six months in jail for having sex with a dog, but the dog essentially got the death penalty as authorities have determined to euthanize the animal.

Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies saved the lives of more than a dozen innocent dogs from a dog fighting ring on Sunday.

A campaign has been launched to save the life of a dog that was reportedly found “raped by a human” and dumped with severe injuries on the streets of London.

Two Missouri men were sentenced to prison last Friday for killing a cat and posting a video of it on social media.